Reviews (6)

Novice to Expert
This book is one of the few available that addresses clinical nursing issues.Very informative.

Classic Nursing Text
Excellent book related to the study of nursing development from a beginner to a clinical expert.Great ideas to improve the retention and recognition of expert clinical nurses.

From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, Commemorative Edition
This is an excellent book. It is a perfect example of how very different specialties and professions can apply similar methods and theory for discovering phenomenae for that profession. Excellent choice. I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing    4. Nursing - General    5. Nursing - Management & Leadership    6. Nursing Practice    7. Practice    8. Success    9. Medical / Nursing / General   

Reviews (15)

Book for Class
I bought this book for school. So far it is alright. If one is looking into a leadership role it is a good read

Very useful and educational book
We are using this in my Intro to Leadership course at college and I have found the book to be very interesting. The author writes very clearly and explains everything quite well. I know its weird to write about, but I really enjoy this authors writing style. I rarely get an academic book where the writing is simple and very straight forward. In a crunch, I can read the first setence or two from each of his paragraphs and understand the concepts of the chapter quite well.
great leadership resource
Found this book a great resource for any nursing leadership class or just to have as a nurse leader. Good information on all styles of leading. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Case studies    5. Leadership    6. Organizational Behavior    7. Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior    8. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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Review of Law in Medicine
Pozgar's book is organized by legal topic and cites relevant case law in all instances.It is an excellent overview of American law as it applies to the health care practitioner or organization.He has taken a topic thatit difficult to communicate and made it very enjoyable reading.Studentswill find it much easier reading than most graduate level texts.

Great information for those new to health care law.
This book was very useful to me. I am a health information management student planning to enter a graduate health administration program. I took the class and this particular book was the text. Our instructor is a lawyerand runs risk management at our university hospital. The text furtherexplained basic legal priciples and related them to health care. The textis easy to read and gives several references to actual documents. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Malpractice    5. Medical Law & Legislation    6. Medical laws and legislation    7. Medical personnel    8. United States    9. Medicolegal issues    10. Non-Classifiable   

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Best possible resource for legal nurse consulting!
Very impressed with the detail of the book.A MUST HAVE!

Excellent book
This is a MUST HAVE book for anyone interested in Legal Nurse Consulting. This book is very thorough and is a great introduction and reference for this career avenue.

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practices, Second Edition
I have found this book to be one of the best on the market.It has helped me tremendously in the course I am taking. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Law and legislation    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal Services    6. Legal status, laws, etc    7. Legal status, laws, etc.    8. Medical    9. Medical Law & Legislation    10. Nursing    11. Nursing (General)    12. Nursing - General    13. Nursing - Management & Leadership    14. Nursing consultants    15. United States    16. Law / Medical Law & Legislation    17. Medicolegal issues    18. USA   

Subjects:  1. Health Care Delivery    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Management & Leadership   

Reviews (6)

NEW AND TIMELY PURCHASE
I received the new book promptly; plus, it was at a great price.

Terrific help
Very helpful, the only resource I used for the exam.Will sell my copy, no marks and CD in perfect condition. contact me at thegeo98@sbcglobal.net

Goal Achieved!
A Case Manager's Study Guide: Preparing for Certification works well for the motivated self learner. The information contained in the book is thorough and concise. I felt prepared for the test after I completed my studies. The test questions, with the added benefit of having them on a CD-ROM, provide the learner with an excellent opportunity to prepare for the certification test environment, especially if you have test anxiety! I just received notice that I met the qualifications and passed the examination to be qualified as a Certified Case Manager(CCM). ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Examinations, questions, etc    2. General    3. Health Care Delivery    4. Health services administrators    5. Licenses    6. Managed care plans (Medical ca    7. Managed care plans (Medical care)    8. Management    9. Medical    10. Medical / Nursing    11. Nursing - Management & Leadership    12. Oncology    13. Study and teaching    14. Non-Classifiable    15. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects    16. Surgical oncology   

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The Case Management Bible
I am not a case manager, however I work with them on a regular basis. I have found this book extremely helpful in understanding the field, theimpact case management can and does have on the health care deliveryprocess, and how it helps improve outcomes and contain costs, especially incritical and chronic care cases. This book is an invaluable tool for casemanagers and anyone who requires proven, nuts and bolts information on theprocess of case management and the role of case managers in health care.Lots of basic, hands-on, how-to information.

A terrific resource for new case managers !!!
I have used this book in developing case manager inservice programs and it has been invaluable as a framework for the case manager's role and responsibilities. It is great !! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Case Management    2. Case management services    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Health Care Delivery    5. Hospitals    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Nursing - General    9. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    10. Medical / General    11. Nursing    12. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Home Care    3. Home Care Agencies    4. Home care services    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing - Home & Community Care    8. Nursing - Management & Leadership    9. United States    10. organization & administration    11. Community nursing    12. Home nursing & caring   

Reviews (6)

Used like new
I purchased a used book and it was in better condition than the new textbook I bought at the campus bookstore last semester.

adequate textbook
a good textbook for nursing management or a similar course - descriptive and comprehensive.

Short, Concise, Easy to Read
I bought this book for a Leadership class I'm taking.It's got great easy to read chapters.Great for anyone wanting to learn about management in nursing. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Leadership    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nurse Administrators    7. Nursing - General    8. Nursing - Management & Leadership    9. Nursing Care    10. Nursing Service Administration    11. Nursing services    12. Medical / Nursing / General    13. Nursing   

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Not that great
This book seems to be helpful if you are searching for really specific diagnoses, but not for just a broad range. For example, risk for impaired skin integrity is due to chemotherapy. It is very specific in each category, and makes it impossible to use for a regular patient care plan. This was partly my fault because i did not read into it a lot before purchasing (bought in the store). I am hoping that I can return it and get a general care plan book, that is not so specific in the related to and evidenced by parts. This one would probably come in handy when I am in specialties phase this summer, however I am in an accelerated LPN program, and our specialties are short in length, so it is a waste of money. I do agree with a previous review that the book is not very well organized either.

absolutely awful
This book is a required book at my nursing school, otherwise I would be selling it now in the used book section. I have wasted sooo much time searching for things in this book. The organization is pitiful. It is organized by system, then disease process, so all of the nursing diagnosis are specifically related to disease(good luck if the disease isn't in the book). I would not recommend this book to anyone, I have since spent lots of time and additional money trying to find a good care plan book.

Excellent
I reviewed 4 different Nursing care plan books; overall, this one is the best and clearest.I would highly recommend this one over others.It is the only one that clearly articulates, NUMERICALLY, what a nursing goal should aim to achieve so you can actually MEASURE if your interventions were successful. Oh..and it really is easy to read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Maternity nursing    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Fundamentals & Skills    5. Nursing - Management & Leadership    6. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    7. Nursing care plans    8. Pediatric nursing    9. Psychiatric nursing    10. Surgical nursing    11. Medical / Nursing / Nurse & Patient    12. Nursing   

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I hope every nurse reads this
I was inspired to become a nurse by stories of the "lady with the lamp" but it took more than 30 years before I found this book and learned just why Florence Nightingale deserved to be my inspiration.The pictures alone are worth the price of this book, and the story too is well told.

Profound and inspiring
Dr. Barbara Dossey, founder of the American Holistic Nursing Association, has written an inspiring and insightful biography of Florence Nightingale that has much to teach us about being bold, tough minded, task oriented, creative, passionate andcompassionate.Nightingale conscientiously developed the strongly focused conceptual, organizational and networking skills that contributed to her formidable accomplishments in the fields of nursing, housing, sanitation and statistics and did it all despite chronic illness, criticism, sexism and other major life challenges.Most of all, we learn that Nightingale was a visionary and mystic, whose life story challenges all of us to know, accept and realize our God-given purpose in this world.

A Most Inspiring Book
I knew of Florence Nightingale's nursing activities before reading this book but had no idea of the extent of her self-discipline, dedication and accomplishments.She was a systems analyst, administrator, networker and mystic who devoted her life to doing God's work.She was also a prolific writer of books, lay reports, pamphlets and thousands of letters.The author provides a wealth of background material describing the historic times and placesassociated with Florence Nightingale. One of the things I appreciated about this book were the many maps and photographs appropriately placed near the text about the person or places. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1820-1910    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. England    7. Medical - General    8. Medical - Nurses    9. Nightingale, Florence,    10. Nurses    11. Nursing (General)    12. Nursing - Management & Leadership    13. Women    14. Biography: political    15. Medical / Nursing / Issues    16. Nursing    17. Social forecasting, futurology    18. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nurse administrators    6. Nursing - Management & Leadership    7. Nursing Services    8. Standards    9. United States   

Reviews (9)

Teaching Strategies For Nurse Educators, August 19, 2003
As a future nursing educator I found this book to be indispensable.Over the past fifteen years of my nursing career, I have been in virtually every nursing educational setting. For this reason I have collected numerous books and nursing resources on the subjects of cognitive processes, learning and teaching techniques. This book by far pulls all the information together, and it will become the most utilized of my collection. The information is laid out in a logical format that starts with the basic concepts, theories, objectives and goals of learning. She then moves on to explain how to prepare and conduct classes. She concludes with the testing and evaluation process. DeYoung takes you gradually through everything you need to know to formulate and conduct a classroom setting that is both stimulating and achieves the goal of educating nurses to become critical thinking, problem-solvers. Her work employs the latest research on learning/education and at the end of every chapter she reinforces learning through case studies, critical thinking exercises and ideas for future research. Any nursing educator within the academic setting or within the clinical area would benefit from this text.She has made the material easy to understand for the beginning educator and advanced enough for the expert. I wish I had had this resource at the start of my career.I absolutely recommend this book.

Teaching Strategies For Nurse Educators, August 19, 2003
As a future nursing educator I found this book to be indispensable.Over the past fifteen years of my nursing career, I have been in virtually every nursing educational setting. For this reason I have collected numerous books and nursing resources on the subjects of cognitive processes, learning and teaching techniques. This book by far pulls all the information together, and it will become the most utilized of my collection. The information is laid out in a logical format that starts with the basic concepts, theories, objectives and goals of learning. She then moves on to explain how to prepare and conduct classes. She concludes with the testing and evaluation process. DeYoung takes you gradually through everything you need to know to formulate and conduct a classroom setting that is both stimulating and achieves the goal of educating nurses to become critical thinking, problem-solvers. Her work employs the latest research on learning/education and at the end of every chapter she reinforces learning through case studies, critical thinking exercises and ideas for future research. Any nursing educator within the academic setting or within the clinical area would benefit from this text.She has made the material easy to understand for the beginning educator and advanced enough for the expert. I wish I had had this resource at the start of my career.I absolutely recommend this book.

Good Parts and Not So Good Parts
Wow, I could've used this one year ago for my first nurse clinical class! This book starts off very promising. It is going to help you grab that elusive thing all teachers want, a class that doesn't put your students in a COMA. The part on learning theory is well explained with examples that pertain to us nurses. There are some basics on the nuts and bolts of instructing a class, again geared towards nursing. Part 2 is where I realize I'm not going to be teacher of the year with this book alone. After switching to patient teaching goals for awhile then we dive into multicultural concepts. I foud the chapter on multiculturalism to be ineffectual and sparse with no real expertise. I wonder why it was included in the book, perhaps it was there to meet an imposed standard. Part 3 is redeeming with some practical and useful ways to turn the learning on in the classroom. This book is useful for a new nurse educator in that she has lots of strategies to choose from with a good base understanding. The experienced instructor caught in the habit of stuffy lecturing can learn new tricks. Overall, this is a good book for beginners and a resource to expand upon. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education & Training    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nurses' Instruction    6. Nursing    7. Nursing - General    8. Study and teaching    9. Teaching    10. Teaching In Nursing    11. methods    12. Medical / Nursing / General   

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A must to all nurses
A book that explains and shows the skills and competencies in the nursing field today. The author goes even more deep than in "From novice to expert". A book that is essencial to all nurses: practice, faculty,research and students. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - General    4. Nursing - Management & Leadership    5. Nursing - Reference    6. Nursing Practice    7. Nursing   

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Worthless
One word-Worthless!!!!!!This book is about a lot of people's different theories on the nursing home industry, uses terms that my administrator had never even heard of, and basically, just makes no sense at all!And to boot, it cost me $50 with shipping.Do not waste your time even thinking about buying it...

Good but not great.
Def. better than nothing but be sure to study everything and not just this book and the green administrators licensure book.
Much better than the green text book
A valuable study guide indeed.I passed the NAB exam a few weeks ago....and this book was a huge help.......a wise investment.Also, for what it's worth.......I had a'lot of experience in LTC (Assistant Activity Director, etc.)....I was also a State Nursing Home surveyor for 4.5 years before starting my AIT........listen up: the NAB is the hardest exam I've ever taken in my entire life! It's the kind of test that'll bring you to tears......trust me on this......study like you've never studied before in your life!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Examination Questions    3. Examinations, questions, etc    4. Health Care Delivery    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing    8. Nursing - Management & Leadership    9. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    10. Nursing Homes    11. Outlines, syllabi, etc    12. United States    13. organization & administration    14. Care of the elderly    15. Management & management techniques    16. Study guides, home study & revision notes   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Nursing - Fundamentals & Skills   

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core curricullum for case management
I found the book very wordy and boring and contained very little information I could use in case management. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business/Economics    3. Case management services    4. Health Care Delivery    5. Hospitals    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing - Management & Leadership    8. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    9. Nursing care plans    10. Outlines, syllabi, etc    11. Primary nursing    12. Hospital administration & management    13. Medical / Nursing / Management & Leadership    14. Nursing    15. USA   

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Just what I needed!
I'm studying for the CWS exam, and needed a good text for review.This works beautifully.Thanks!

Excellent wound care primer
I have read this book and used it as a resource in preparing for wound care certification.I found it invaluable for it's detailed sections on anatomy and especially physiology.It was extremely helpful in gaining an understanding of what happens in a wound and how it heals.There areequally helpful chapters on disease processes and their impact on woundhealing, and on choosing dressings and techniques for proper wound care. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Management & Leadership    4. Nursing - Reference    5. Medical / Nursing / Reference    6. Nursing   

Subjects:  1. Hospital Administration    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Reference    5. Medicine    6. Non-Classifiable    7. Reference works   

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Fuszard's Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing 3rd ed.
Fuszard's Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing 3rd ed. by Arlene J. Lowenstein and Martha J. Bradshaw (Ed.)Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - General    4. Nursing